Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:14.12.61

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:28.05.86

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:28.05.86

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:03.08.90

Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000

Ratification / Accession:31.01.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 31.01.2005

Methods and Means of Warfare

Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925

Ratification / Accession:09.12.86

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:25.04.75

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:27.03.89

CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980

Ratification / Accession:27.03.89

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:27.03.89

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:14.05.98

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:27.09.2019

CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, amended, 1996

Ratification / Accession:27.09.2019

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:25.09.98

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), amended Article 1, 2001

Ratification / Accession:21.09.2017

CCW Protocol (V) on Explosive Remnants of War, 2003

Ratification / Accession:27.09.2019

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:10.07.2017

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:11.12.2020

Naval and Airwarfare

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:17.04.2012

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:17.04.2012

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:17.04.2012

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:22.01.2002

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:02.11.2017

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:30.06.86

OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977

Ratification / Accession:03.05.82

Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006

Ratification / Accession:02.11.2017

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:07.11.2016

Related databases

Customary IHL database

ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL

Reference documents

States party to the main treaties

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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols

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